That is good news and BTW a heart-touching story
-GTG
On 7/20/07, Brandon Aaron [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Excellent! Be sure and ping the list if you need any help with the
presentation. I believe there are several people on the list who have
recently given a similar presentation to their company.
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Brandon Aaron
On 7/20/07, Michael Price [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi all,
Nothing like a good success story to warm the spirits before the weekend
(as if the fact the working week is over didn't do that enough!)
I first discovered jQuery a few months ago, when looking for an
alternative to YUI - which is a great library and well documented, but a
little large and awkward for my tastes.
I ferget what stage jQ was at but it's entirely possible it hadn't
reached version 1.0. Already I could see it's potential and power - CSS
and XPath selectors, chainable functions, and only 20k for the packed
version. I began to use it in small personal projects, eventually
working my way up to a level of confidence in it's ability and my
understanding of it that I began to use it on client's websites here. I
can't claim to be a JavaScript expert but with jQuery, I didn't have to
be.
Over the last few months I have used jQuery to handle AJAX work such as
adding products to a shopping cart in the background, and combined it
with plugins like tabs, validation, accordion, modal windows and just
about everything in the interface library. Websites I work on bounce,
fade, slide, pop up confirmations much nicer than your average alert()
and confirm() and generally wow our clients with the effects I've been
able to pull off. And - most important of all - the sites work perfectly
with JavaScript turned off. Soon, I hope to be able to show you a
booking system I've been working on which blew our client's socks off.
And an e-commerce site which did the same.
There's always been a problem though - I'm the only one in the office
truly sold on jQuery. A colleague of mine recently saw some code I'd
done and decided it looked simple enough to try at home. Over a weekend
he'd redesigned his football website to have drag and drop player
positioning, AJAX star ratings for players, and rounded-off corners on
his DIVs - and this with no prior jQuery knowledge other than what he'd
seen me produce. The problem still existed that if a JavaScript fix to
one of my works was required I was generally the only one who could do
it.
No more! In this morning's annual review I told my bosses how much I
loved jQuery and how it had made keeping up with my ever increasing
workload so much easier. JavaScript now took minutes, not hours, and
went further and was more compatible than it would've ever been without
jQuery running under the hood. Convinced by my arguments and eulogising,
I've now been given the job of teaching all of my colleagues the art of
jQuery in the hope that we as a company can standardise on it for all
present and future projects!
We're only a small company but I'm really pleased to be able to take my
enthusiasm for jQuery forward and have it power all of our websites -
there really isn't a better library or community for us to be relying
on. Thank you to John, or anyone else who works directly with the
project and every single person who's ever written a plug-in I've used
or answered a question I've asked. Our clients love you - but they don't
know it. :)
Regards,
Michael Price
